SBC Digital Summit<\/a> panel, experts said that the COVID-19 crisis leading to a lack of high-level competition created a ripe environment for corruption. That environment will be around even after the virus subsides.<\/p>\n\u201cIt is very clear that many athletes, many clubs, in many sports, in many countries, are going to be financially weakened, and they have been fragilized,\u201d<\/strong> said Gilles Maillet, director of sport integrity for French lottery operator Groupe FDJ. \u201cThis is going to increase the risk of manipulation of competitions in the very near future, starting by the end of this year.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven players from the top-flight professional ice hockey league in Belarus have been suspended indefinitely because of their role in fixing a game last November. The International Ice Hockey Federation announced its ruling on Friday. The players taken off the ice are Pavel Boyarchuk, Stanislav Kuchkin, Vyacheslav Lisichkin, Alexei Ivanov, Nikita Ustinenko, Sergei Sheleh, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":140935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Seven Suspended by IIHF for Role for Fixing Hockey Game in Belarus<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n